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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I w

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert

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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. – Gustave Flaubert

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